Recipe: Appetizing Tangy and Spicy Mango (Simple Indonesian Mango Rujak)

Tangy and Spicy Mango (Simple Indonesian Mango Rujak). Great recipe for Tangy and Spicy Mango (Simple Indonesian Mango Rujak). Most Indonesians I know love rujak. Rujak is made of vegetables and fruits with special sauce.

Crunchy and sour young mango, dip in a sweet,tangy and spicy palm sugar sauce Rujak Mangga. This Indonesian Mango Salad that I used to have during my school time. This rujak mangga (mango salad) wasn't my late mom recipe but I created when I was a young age and knew we had plenty mangoes. You can cook Tangy and Spicy Mango (Simple Indonesian Mango Rujak) using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tangy and Spicy Mango (Simple Indonesian Mango Rujak)

1. You need of unripe mango, about 400 grams (I used cengkir or Indramayu variety) -- make sure that it is about to ripe, but not quite.
2. You need of salt (I used Himalayan coarse salt, but you can use regular salt as well).
3. It's of granulated sugar.
4. It's of red chili pepper, sliced (or ground, for spicier rujak).

Very simple (or I called it amateur) recipe, I would say. However, I always miss the simpleness of this rujak mangga. Rujak is essentially a fruit and vegetable salad that incorporates a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables tossed with a sweet and spicy sauce made from palm sugar and aromatic spices. Unlike the fruit salads that most of us know, rujak is a spicy and tangy fruit salad.

Tangy and Spicy Mango (Simple Indonesian Mango Rujak) instructions

1. Peel and slice mango thinly. Put it in an airtight container..
2. Spread the salt, sugar, and chili pepper..
3. Cover the container. Shake it a few times..
4. Wait at least an hour or two until water comes out from the mango. Store in the fridge. It should last for about a week, but usually we finish it in a day..

This is thanks to the hot, sweet, and spicy dressing which is made using palm sugar, peanuts, and ground chili pepper. Typically, Indonesian rujak is made using fresh fruits and vegetables. Ngerujak is the term for "making & eating rujak". There's no fun making and eating rujak alone. If you want to make rujak, you buy one pineapple, one mango, one bengkoang, half a kilo of java apples, and those are a lot of fruits!